The Pacific Northwestern: Dead Man
January 13, 2026
Circumstances transform a mild mannered accountant into a notorious gunslinger in Jim Jarmusch’s quintessential psychedelic western, an odyssey from the arid desert of the Southwest to the rugged coast of the Pacific Northwest.
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Tuesday, January 13, 2026
Job offer in hand, mild-mannered accountant William Blake (Johnny Depp) bids farewell to his quiet life in Ohio, hops aboard a macabre train, and travels through a wasteland to the industrialized mining town of Machine, only to learn the position has been filled. Stumbling into a violent lovers quarrel finds him wounded and in the care of the Native American outcast Nobody (Gary Farmer), who informs Blake that the irremovable bullet lodged in his chest makes him a walking “dead man.” The pair embark on a spiritual journey through a surreal American frontier where hostile confrontations between drifters and bounty hunters develop Blake’s reputation as a notorious gunslinger. All the while, the trees grow taller and the dry rocks mossier as they head towards the farthest reaches of the Pacific Northwest, “the place where the sea meets the sky.”
Jarmusch worked with Indigenous artists from Neah Bay to recreate a Makah village reminiscent of those from Ozette, a stunning effort of historical facsimile which serves as the crescendo to the characters’ odyssey. With a legendary droning guitar score by Neil Young, this psychedelic, dreamy vision of the west finds Jarmusch at his most poetic. Plus, it features a kaleidoscopic murderers’ row of unique screen personalities: Robert Mitchum, Lance Henrickson, Billy Bob Thornton, John Hurt, Alfred Molin, Gabriel Burne, Iggy Pop, and the inimitable Crispin Glover.
“This masterpiece is simultaneously a mystical, highly poetic account of dying; a well-researched appreciation of Native American cultures; a frightening portrait of modern American violence and capitalist greed that refuses to traffic in the stylistic alibis of Hollywood; a warm, hilarious depiction of cross-cultural friendship; and a hallucinatory trip across the American wilderness.”—Jonathan Rosenbaum
- Director: Jim Jarmusch
- Principal Cast: Johnny Depp, Crispin Glover, Gary Farmer, John Hurt
- Country: USA
- Year: 1995
- Running Time: 121 min.
- Producer: Demetra J. McBride
- Screenplay: Jim Jarmusch
- Cinematographers: Robby Müller
- Editors: Jay Rabinowitz
- Music: Neil Young
- US Distributor: Janus Films